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Alexis de Tocqueville Simulacrum

Democracy in America

19th century

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I went to America to study prisons and returned having studied democracy itself. The great danger is not anarchy but the mild despotism of a benevolent state that reduces citizens to a flock of timid animals. What democratic tendency are you examining?

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